Nicolle Zellner

Physics Faculty

My research interests concern understanding the impact history of the Earth-Moon system and how these impact events may have affected the surface of the Earth over time. It is exciting to analyze microscopic impact samples from the Moon, which we use as proxies for understanding impacts on Earth, and realize they tell us about large-scale surface-altering events that occurred hundreds of millions of years ago!

Albion is a great little college with a lot of personality! I like teaching here because it allows me to interact with students and get to know them as real people, not just a face in a seat. Helping my students gain a greater appreciation for science is the most rewarding part of my job.

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Midori Yoshii

International Studies Faculty

What goes through the minds of leaders and decision-makers at critical moments in world history? We tend to think history is already written through news, but it can take 25 years or more for people to gain access to documents written by policy makers. Only then do the details begin to emerge. As a diplomatic historian, I often spend time researching in the national archives and presidential libraries. What makes my research so fascinating are those moments when I discover papers revealing new facts that force us to rethink history. The process is like looking for a needle in a haystack, but knowing what went through the minds of decision-makers in critical moments and reliving history through their writings is tremendously exciting.

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Kyle Shanton

Education Faculty

Teacher education is certainly challenging, but it is always interesting. Over the past 20 years, I’ve gradually come to understand how inventive children and youth are with language and literacy, and how rewarding it is as a teacher to notice this creativity. My research focuses on capturing clear images of how children and youth construct literacy in and out of schools. And, my teaching encourages prospective teachers to take a look at these, and similar, situations through their own eyes. In holding this expectation, I believe teachers create opportunities to transform their understanding of things we take for granted and grow as professionals.

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Gregory Saltzman

Economics and Management Faculty

I’m an economist who does research on labor relations and health policy. I love teaching a course on negotiation and dispute resolution. The course has a series of role-playing exercises in which the students negotiate with each other. The students usually have a lot of fun with these exercises, but they sometimes get steaming mad when a classmate double-crosses them. The treacherous student finds that nobody will trust him or her in subsequent negotiations. I hope that, by the end of the course, students learn that it’s okay to be tough, but that you should not break a promise.